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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
The Forms of Love George Oppen 1975
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
To His Mistress Going to Bed John Donne 1654
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Dusting Marilyn Nelson 1994
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
Novel Arthur Rimbaud 2002
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 1949
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
Summer Grass Carl Sandburg 1928
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
Puerto Rican Obituary Pedro Pietri 2015
Poem Langston Hughes 1926
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman

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